6TB and Built for Speed

Supporting the industry’s best response times for a 6TB nearline drive, the Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD enables faster data transfers by utilizing the latest interfaces on a trusted platform. And for reliable access to bulk storage, the Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD provides excellent IOPS/TB along with the reliability, availability and serviceability that your customers expect.

Supersize Your Unstructured Data Storage

The Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD is the perfect foundation for building maximum density server and storage solutions. This family of 3.5-inch capacity-optimized hard drives in 6, 5, 4 and 2TB capacities supports the highest density storage for a great return-on-investment.

Reliable, Robust Bulk Data Storage for a 24×7 World

High capacity storage for multi-drive chassis requires predictable and reliable performance. The Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD is built to support enterprise-class nearline workloads of up 550TB per year, which is up to 10× the rated workload of desktop HDDs. Clearly, the Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD can help to ensure that you meet your rigorous bulk storage SLAs. Choose from 12Gb/s SAS or SATA 6Gb/s interfaces for easy integration into existing platforms.

Enterprise HDD Reviews

The Seagate v4 has RAID Rebuild functionality built-in. RAID Rebuild, part of the SAS standard, allows communication between the drive and a RAID controller to perform targeted rebuilds. These surgical rebuilds can remove the requirement for rebuilding an entire array."

Seagate claims they achieved those performance gains in part by leveraging the latest SAS interface and by the company’s own efforts to optimize the performance of existing HDD technology. In contrast, rival manufacturers are introducing slower HDDs that make use of helium to increase capacity in a way that winds up driving up the cost per terabyte paid by customers.”

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When our engineers first began testing the Seagate 6TB nearline drives, they had to double-check the results of their benchmarks because they were so surprised at the performance levels they were reaching. The results were absolutely amazing for a drive of this capacity. Combining the levels of performance, capacity, and reliability make for an instant success story for our customers when they are measuring their return on investment. In the words of one of our product engineers ‘This Thing Rocks!’”

The performance of the Seagate 6TB enterprise product is quite impressive. There is a significant and measurable edge in various operations versus competing 4TB disks; in comparative testing, the Seagate 6TB product out-performed in the range of 48-63%. With these metrics we can spec the 6TB HDD to meet our objective to advance our customers’ hardware configuration and, in turn, improve their application’s performance.“